# After multiple installs Processing wont start, independent of version

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/after-multiple-installs-processing-wont-start-independent-of-version/32325>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Tags:** homework\
**Created:** [September 20, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/after-multiple-installs-processing-wont-start-independent-of-version/32325 "2021-09-20T04:06:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Arago](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Arago)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/after-multiple-installs-processing-wont-start-independent-of-version/32325/1 "2021-09-20T04:06:01Z")

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**Context**  
Im in college and for a class my teacher is using processing, everything was going fine until we needed to use the contributions manager to download a library for some assingments. At first I couldn’t use any of the resources of the libraries and none of the examples were working, so I tried to unninstall processing.  
We were using 3.5.4, I started using the 4 beta and the problem persisted, after talking to my teacher and some research I attempted some of the fixes, none of them worked. Later my teacher sugested that I should reinstall processing, I shared my screen and installed and reinstalled processing many many times, this leads us to my problem now.

**Description**  
Processing wont start, inpedendent of method. The window of processing shows up for about 1 second then it closes. Dont know if this is usefull but in every attempt of reinstallation I deleted the processing folder in Documents, in Roaming/ AppData, and the extracted file after the download. Now every time I try the .exe nothing happens.

**Expected Behavior**  
Whenever we open processing.exe, after displaying the logo window, the editor should open up.

**Current Behavior**  
It doesnt respond, depending of version a window opens and closes after one or half a second

**My Environment**

Processing versions: 3.5.4 / 4.0 beta 1 / and also attemped 2.2.1 with the same results  
Operating System and OS version: Windows 10 Pro  
Other information: 64bit